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  24 February 2023
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - After being injured by a landmine: Father Norberto Pozzi arrived in Bologna Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - The 71-year-old Italian Carmelite missionary Norberto Pozzi, injured by a landmine on the road from Bozoum to Bocaranga in north-western Central African Republic (see Fides, 13/2/2023), arrived t ...
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  24 February 2023
  AMERICA/HAITI - Chaotic conditions: There has been no news of Father Noah since the kidnapping two weeks ago Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Haiti is marked by hunger, violence, cholera and political instability. The Caribbean island is now a shattered country without institutions, with a starving population and armed gangs th ...
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  24 February 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Elections on February 25th and March 11th: The country is at a turning point Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Two "old foxes" of Nigerian politics and one (almost) outsider, very popular with the younger electorate, are the three favorites in the presidential elections that will take place in Nigeria tomo ...
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  24 February 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Identity of Buddhist and Taoist monks available online Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - An "online archive" containing the identification data of all Buddhist and Taoist monks registered with the Chinese authorities, which can also be consulted by citizens who, from now on, will no ...
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  23 February 2023
  AFRICA/ALGERIA -The three Nuns of Timimoun Timimoun (Agenzia Fides) - The village of Timimoun rises in the homonymous oasis in the center of the Algerian desert, more than 1,200 kilometers south of Algiers. Tourist guides point it out for the red ochre color of i ...
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  23 February 2023
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - In the east of the Country: Around 10 million people depend on humanitarian aid Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - A total of 2.25 billion dollars is needed to help the 10 million people in the three eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Ituri, North and South Kivu) who, according to th ...
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  23 February 2023
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Lent, "a journey through trials and suffering, towards full joy" Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - "What we are living this year is a Lent somewhat different from previous years, because Sri Lanka is going through a situation of great economic, political, social, and even moral suffering. We ...
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  23 February 2023
  OCEANIA/FRENCH POLYNESIA - "PUTUPUTURA'A", the meeting of the Catholics of the Raromatai archipelago Uturoa (Agenzia Fides) - The mission of the laity baptized in the Church was the focus of the three-day meeting that has just ended in Uturoa on the island of Raiatea in the Raromatai archipelago, the Leeward Islands. Th ...
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  22 February 2023
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: the "protagonist" of the mission is the Holy Spirit. We must invoke Him Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In the Church "everything must be conformed to the requirements of the proclamation of the Gospel; not to the opinions of the conservatives or the progressives, but to the fact that Jesus reaches p ...
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  22 February 2023
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - The number of the latest jihadist attacks worsens Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - At least 70 soldiers have been killed in four days in two different clashes with jihadist groups in northern Burkina Faso. The bloodiest clash dates back to February 17 when at least 51 sol ...
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  22 February 2023
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Fasting from hatred: in time of Lent, the life of displaced people of the civil conflict Hakha (Agenzia Fides) - "Let us fast from hatred towards others, even our enemies, to discover Christ who lives in them. Let us fast from pessimism and the dark thoughts that gather in our hearts today, to fill us with C ...
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  22 February 2023
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - The missionaries in the Anjanamasina juvenile prison: Making young people feel loved, important to someone, not a burden to get rid of Ankililoaka (Agenzia Fides) - 'Trano zaza maditra', or Home for naughty boys, is the name of the state rehabilitation center which receives more than a hundred children and young people in Anjanamasina, a suburb of the c ...
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  22 February 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Start of Lent, praying for the Pope's intentions Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - "We must seize the opportunity of Lent to return to the Our Father". This is the encouragement addressed this year to the Catholics of the Archdiocese of Guangzhou by Archbishop joseph Gan Junq ...
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  21 February 2023
  ASIA/MIDDLE EAST- Lent. Catholic Patriarchs open the time of the "Great Fast" under the sign of the Fathers of the Church Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The Eastern Churches begin the penitential season of Lent while earthquakes, poverty, conflicts and political crises continue to sow pain and anguish in the region. The Patriarchs of the Eastern ...
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  21 February 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Uncertainty and the economic crisis characterize the election campaign Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - In addition to the insecurity (only yesterday, February 20th, at least eight police officers were killed in the south-east of the country), Nigeria is also facing serious economic difficulties ahe ...